Category: Awards and scholarships

Excellent cum laude for Laura González thesis on “Evaluating inorganic nanoparticles in the living organism C. elegans”!

Written by Anna May on December 16, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, News, Projects News.

The NN group members would like to congratulate Laura González for her excellent work on the Ph.D. thesis defense!

Laura’s thesis is entitled “Evaluating inorganic nanoparticles in the living organism Caenorhabditis elegans” and has been supervised by Dr. Anna Laromaine and Dr. Anna Roig, from the NN group.

The jury was formed by Dr. Maria Vallet-Regí (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Dr. Stefaan Soenen (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Dr. Joel N. Meyer (Duke University, USA).

Congratulations Laura!

Good news! Miquel Torras has secured a Severo Ochoa Grant for his Master’s Research at ICMAB within the N&N Group!

Written by Anna May on November 2, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, News.

Miquel Torras, Master Student, coursing “MSc. Applied Materials Chemistry” at Universitat de Barcelona, has secured one of the competitive Severo Ochoa Grants to conduct his research at the ICMAB-CSIC, within the N&N Group!

Miquel will work on magneto-plasmonic nanostructures, following the work of his Bachelor’s degree, under the supervision of Anna Roig.

We are very happy for him! Congratulations Miquel!

More info about the Severo Ochoa Grant call and resolution: https://sede.csic.gob.es/becas-severo-ochoa-icmab

Hurray! Anna Roig has secured a Professor (Professor d’Investigació) position within the CSIC!

Written by Anna May on October 28, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, News.

The whole N&N Group congratulates Anna on her new post as Professor (Professor d’Investigació) within the CSIC.

We are very happy for her, and for the group! Let’s celebrate it!

Enhorabona Anna!

News at ICMAB webpage: click here

Congratulations to Elisa Carenza for the Extraordinay PhD Award!

Written by Anna May on October 17, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, News.

We congratulate Elisa Carenza, who has been awarded with the Extraordinary PhD Award (Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat) for her thesis entitled “Engineering iron oxide nanoparticles for angiogenic therapies“.

Elisa carried out her PhD here at ICMAB, within the N&N Group, and in collaboration with Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), under the supervision of Anna Roig (ICMAB) and Anna Rosell (VHIR), in the framework of the UAB PhD program.

The awards ceremony will take place on November 18, 2016, at 6.30 pm, at Hotel Campus (Edifici Blanc).

Elisa is now working in a startup biopharmaceutical company (Addex Therapeutics) in Geneva (Switzerland), which develops new molecules for the treatment of neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s and epilepsy. Elisa is investigating the effects of these molecules in humans, in different Clinical Research studies.

Congratulations Elisa!

More information about the Extraordinary PhD award resolution here.
The thesis can be found in the UAB Digital Document Repository : http://ddd.uab.cat/record/128025

Anna Laromaine, one of the five granted scientific women in the “For Women in Science” program of L’Oréal #Ponlescara

Written by Anna May on September 30, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, News.

Anna Laromaine is one of the five scientific women granted by L’Oréal in the iniciative “For Women in Science” #Ponlescara, to visualize scientific women in various disciplines and bring them close to society and to students.

During the day, the five scientific women, with other three more, have answered the questions of more than 100 highschool students. The idea is to see that women are in all the scientific areas, and that the scientific career is a possibility to consider.

The five scientific women have received 15.000 € to spend in Research Projects in their scientific areas within the XI Edition of the “Bolsas de Investigación 2016” program. Apart from Anna Laromaine, the other granted women are Vanesa Esteban, Azucena Bardaji, Jaione Valle and Anna Shnyrova. The ceremony took place in Madrid, with Cristina Cifuentes, president of the Comunidad de Madrid, and Carmen Vela, secretaria de Estado in Research, Development and Innovation.

More information in: http://www.loreal.es/periodistas/notas-de-prensa/2016/sep/ponlescara-iniciativa#

And follow the hashtag #Ponlescara: https://twitter.com/hashtag/ponlescara?src=hash

News at ICMAB: http://icmab.es/news/awards/880-anna-laromaine-premiada-con-una-beca-del-programa-l-oreal-unesco?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Other links:
UAB: News at UAB page
El País: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/29/ciencia/1475167149_087039.html
Cassà Digital: http://www.cassadigital.cat/noticia/3930/beca-loreal-unesco-per-a-la-cassanenca-anna-laromaine
Agencia Sinc: http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Cinco-cientificas-espanolas-premiadas-por-el-programa-L-Oreal-Unesco
20 minutos: http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2850212/0/beca-cientificas-loreal-unesco-for-women-in-science/
RRHH Digital: http://www.rrhhdigital.com/secciones/talento/119992/
Diari de Girona: http://www.diaridegirona.cat/comarques/2016/10/05/programa-loreal-unesco-beca-cientifica/807679.html
Tu Otro Diario: http://tuotrodiario.hola.com/futuro/2016092963500/cientificas-espanolas-premiadas-loreal-unesco/
Ràdio Cassà: http://www.radiocassa.cat/web/index.php/llistat-noticies/9-breus/1042-el-programa-l-oreal-unesco-beca-la-cientifica-cassanenca-anna-laromaine

Laura González has earned an internship in a start-up company within the BoosterWe program

Written by Anna May on September 5, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, News.

Laura González has obtained a fellowship to do an internship in a start-up company in Latin America or Portugal for a period of 6-12 weeks for her entrepreneurship project GMP Nanotech, within the BoosterWe progam.

The GMP Nanotech project she presented consist in the business plan of the manufacture of inorganic nanoparticles for biomedical applications with pharmaceutical quality.

The BoosterWe program supports entrepreneurs from universities in Latin America, Spain and Portugal to put in place innovative business initiatives. The program offers hands-on learning experience and business management through stays in small and medium consolidated companies that operate in another country and in complementary sectors than the entrepreneurs projects. These stays will last for 6 to 12 weeks. The beneficiaries will have a grant to help cover travel expenses and accommodation in the country of destination, as well as personalized mentoring of their new projects. The overall objective of BoosterWE is to energize the university entrepreneurship in the Ibero-American region, promoting the creation of highly innovative companies, and especially promoting the incorporation of female talent within the university entrepreneurship with scientific and technological base.

BoosterWe progrma is supported by RedEmprendia y BancoSantander.

Pol has been accepted to an International Master Course in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion

Written by Anna May on September 1, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, News, Welcome and farewell.

Today is Pol’s last day in the N&N Group. In the group meeting we gave him a little present and he brought some delicious pastries from his hometown, Manresa.

We will miss him, but we are happy that he has been accepted to the International Master in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion (MESC) with an Erasmus Mundus scholarship.

https://youtu.be/z_-1YKc3ud0

This Master is a 2-years education program in the field of Energy-related Materials. During the first year, Pol will study in Toulouse (France) and in Warsaw (Poland); and in the second year in Córdoba (Spain). The last semester is dedicated to an internship. After successful completion of the curriculum, Pol will graduate with a multiple Master degree awarded by all universities of the consortium and recognised in each of the countries visited.

Congratulations Pol! Good luck and see you soon!

More info: https://www.u-picardie.fr/mundus-mesc/

Xavier Frias accepted for a M.S. in Nanomaterials at ICL

Written by Anna May on July 22, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, News.

Xavier Frias, a former undergraduate student in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of the UAB, which did his Undergraduate Final Project with us, has been accepted for a Master in Nanomaterials at Imperial College London, and with the possibility to continue with the Ph.D!!

Xavier’s work within the N&N group at ICMAB was entitled “Synthesis of gold-functionalized porous alumina support for catalysis”, and was under the supervision of Anna Laromaine and Martí Gich. After being at ICMAB, he spent this last year in Paris at the CEA – Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives.

Congratulations Xavier! All the best in London!

Pol Sallés received the award for the best Bachelor’s Final Project at the Formula VIII conference

Written by Anna May on July 5, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, Conferences, News.

Pol Sallés received yesterday (July 4^th) the award for the best Bachelor’s Final Project at the Welcome Ceremony of the Formula VIII conference, at Hotel Crowne Plaza, in Barcelona. Pol’s work was entitled “TiO₂/Au nanoparticles on bacterial cellulose substrates for photocatalytic applications“, and was supervised by Anna Roig. Xavier Domingo Prizes

The prize, which consisted in 1000 € for the student and 500 € for the supervisor, to be spent in cultural activities/material, was delivered by Sergi Ruscalleda (CRODA), Miguel Burdeos (SPB) and Juan Lemmel (SEQC).

Welcome Ceremony of the Formula VIII

This award is in the framework of the 4^th Prizes Xavier Domingo, organized by the Spanish Committee of Detergent, Surfactants and Related Products (CED, Comité Español de la Detergencia, Tensioactivos y Afines), the Universitat de Barcelona, CRODA and SPB. A part from the award to Bacherlor students, there is also awards for Secondary Students who have done works related with colloids and surfactants.

Best Oral Presentation for Laura González at the 2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students

Written by Anna May on June 30, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, Conferences, News.

Laura González (ICMAB) has won the prize for the Best Oral Presentation at the 2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students (PhD meeting) for her talk “Evaluation of inorganic nanoparticles in the model organism C. elegans”.

The second prize for Oral Presentation has been for Daniel Grajales Garcia (ICN2) for his talk on “Bio-Hacking and Do-It-Yourself Biologist”. The two posters awards have been for Enelia Cristina (ICN2) (second prize) and Florind Merkoçi (ICN2) (first prize). The winners were determined through popular voting.

The aim of this conference is to give the opportunity to PhD, Master and Undergraduate students working in nanoscience at the UAB Campus to present their own scientific work in a 10-15 minutes presentation or in a poster (poster sessions). The meeting took place at the Facultat de Ciències i Biociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) on June 29th-30th.

Congratulations Laura!